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Author of NINEFOX GAMBIT, CODE AND CODEX (forthcoming). Rep'd by Seth Fishman. M.A. student at ThinkSpace (Professional Media Composition, intermission). He/him.
My life is asplode. Triaging to Essential and Fun Stress Relief; sorry.
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...Animal Farm?!
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Oh no. :(
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(Why was I looking at pseudocode? I was looking at C# or C++ stuff, long story.)
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I think it's probably a case of "a lot of composers aren't devs and/or don't love math, middleware/libraries to the rescue!" :3
(I'm not a dev either, so...)
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Right!! I was all "waitasec, is it just Fourier transforms all the way down?!" I wasn't *doing* them in HS but I sure as heck *knew* about them and some of the theory. :3
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Wait:
Python ed. of 2D Game Development: From Zero to Hero (I've looked at the pseudocode ed.), CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Possibly *too* remedial (includes *math preliminaries*) but those are easily skipped.
gitlab.com/Penaz/2dgd_f...
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That said, there *is* a Python roguelike tutorial BUT it will not teach you programming *concepts* if that's a bottleneck; it assumes that you have intermediate coding experience, basic Python familiarity in its explanations. Terrific but not for beginners.
rogueliketutorials.com/tutorials/tc...
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Ah, sorry! I know just enough coding to get by from a few examples and my husband codes Python for work so I ask him any questions I have. /o\ If books work & public libraries are accessible, though, they often either have books on coding (since Python's common) or sometimes digital courses.
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Regarding notation, I am...the person who pointed out in a fannish context that "notation" could be interpreted to include any of:
(a) "standard" Western music notation
(b) harmonica tablature
(c) shapenotes
(d) Black MIDI
(e) guqin tablature
etc. :]
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What people seem to do is use WWISE or FMOD as middleware for game audio, and also whatever the heck VST plugins for processing beforehand with the source audio. I'm still getting to grips with the whole ecosystem myself (where my primary interest is game *music* composition).
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There's an interesting bifurcation between:
(a) (Western) music notation and theory
(b) music production using MIDI + DAW
(c) audio engineering for recording/mixing/mastering
(d) DSP
perspectives on audio. I'm mad I didn't look at DSP decades ago because math jargon is MUCH easier for me to parse.
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Thank you!!
...I reward her with catnip after. Catten is a catnip addict. :3
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...you can tell I'm not a zoologist.../o\
I really want one of these kitty holsters with, like, dragon scales or something. :3 Maybe little "wings." :3
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...people are horrified that for revisions, time permitting, I retype from scratch. But I'm *lazy* so if a line (etc) isn't pulling its weight, I cut it. It's very incentivzing. :p
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Honestly I am loving it! But also I am having A Nostalgia for turtle graphics. :3 I'm curious to see how much trouble I get into at the point I mess around with FMOD integration. /o\
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Oh, hard same!...but I have to return Track Changes so I'm stuck in terms of what I give the editor. :]
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:sob: I keep Word around because I have A Paranoia about Track Changes in novel-length files for work (I know at least one writer who ran into issues using either LibreOffice or OpenOffice). In real life, drafting happens in other apps. Or on a manual typewriter. /o\
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I hope you have the BEST vacation! Fingers crossed for you. <3
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I had a typo version of this as "sap opera," Mary Robinette! I imagine that's the Allergy Central with Amorous Trees show...
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This is a nice change of pace from anxiety dreams, including the one in which we were being chased by (a) gators (b) wolves (c) bears (d) possibly also velociraptors, I lose track.
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I did a double-take when I saw the OED Compact Edition. I know it's old and beat-up! I don't care! I WANTED IT. It was $2 USD!!!